Nick, That's good to hear. The problems I experienced were concerning iSCSI, and Xen running on the same system. I literally spent a week setting everything up only to have the whole setup fail silently on the last step. No recourse, no mention of this problem anywhere. This was back when Ubuntu 11 was new, and I think I was using 10.10 at the time. Needless to say I was seriously miffed after spending all this time on this task. In the end, sadly I wound up using Windows with Microsoft's initiator software. But at least It worked
Passed this, at least back then, and at least 1-2 new iteration of Ubuntu afterwards. Ubuntu's upgrade path was horrendous. Often breaking good, working installs, assuming it did not flat out fail to begin with. Then the last debacle that I bothered reading about. Putting google search on your desktop ? So when you search for files on your system you get results off the internet too ? Desktop adwords anyone ? At least this is what I read what was proposed . . . Anyway, if you like Mint for a desktop I say more power to you. Just dont expect it to be a Swiss army knife of distro's. I would seriously suggest you put Debian in a VM as a support system for the beaglebone black. at the very least. Then, leave it as CLI only ( no X or any unnecessary stuff like that ). Your source building life should become much simpler / easier / better in the long run. On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Nick <[email protected]> wrote: > My own experience with Ubuntu 12.04 on a Tecra M9 wasn't pleasant when it > came to the stability of the NVidia GPU using the open source driver. Every > so often X Server would freeze either at the login screen or when logging > in, if that wasn't the case then it may occur with the next reboot. Using > the official NVidia driver was far, far, far worse with X Server freezing > once every 10 seconds every time the laptop was running. > > Since switching to Linux Mint 17 on the Tecra absolutely no problems have > occurred with the stability of the NVidia GPU regardless of the driver used. > > > > On 17 June 2014 14:05, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, you know I am not a big fan of Ubuntu. My own personal experiences >> with it was several years ago, and it wound up going similar to how it >> seems to be going for Nick here. Which is why l left Angstrom in the ditch >> over a year ago. >> >> e.g. I do not want an OS that argues with me, or wants to fight at every >> step i take in a custom direction. >> >> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
